Mission: Earth: Escort Class Starship: Book Two by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The nursery was a warm room with pinks and light yellows. It was the middle of the night and he was checking on Katie on the way to the bedroom when the inevitable happened.

For the last nine weeks he’d been training two hours a day on the new tactical station in VR simulations, ever since Cassiopeia had enlisted his promised aid and reinstalled the implant. The beam weapons were a lot different than fighting with plasma balls that moved at a hundredth the speed. The range was comparable as well, though that had more to do with the combat level sensors than the weapon itself. He suspected the potential range of the weapon was a lot farther than the plasma balls, since it wasn’t dependent on a limited energy source and only its own momentum, but that didn’t do them any good without the ability to aim it.

At nine weeks, Cassie was just over a month short of finishing the new ships, and according to the message on his enhanced reality interface the enemy had arrived to start their second invasion attempt. He ran down the hallway and gave Susan a kiss and an apologetic look.

“Got to go. The Benzae are back.”

His wife looked scared, but she was also understanding and looked proud of him, “Go, be careful. I wish I could go with you, but I can’t risk us both.”

He understood that. If it was just about them, he knew Susan would’ve insisted on going, and that their fates would be tied together. But Katie couldn’t lose both her parents, and Susan was almost five months pregnant with their second child besides. He wasn’t a coward, but it was still hard to turn and leave knowing there was a chance he wouldn’t be coming back. Not for his own life, but for what his family would go through. At least money wouldn’t be an issue, just the royalty from the fusion reactor would take care of his family if he was gone, even if he wouldn’t be able to complete any other system software for the other ship’s systems.

Likely for generations. Not to mention Susan’s own royalties for her part in the navigation system, assuming of course Carl could build a working version of it before anyone else.

The stealth shuttle was right outside his back door, and he didn’t hesitate as he ran inside and then the back door closed. He started to strip immediately, and then pulled on the ship suit and vest.

“What’s going on?”

Cassie replied, “Ten enemy fleets are in system, two A.U. out from the Earth. They arrived right before I sent the alert, so two minutes ago. So far nothing, I suspect they’re waiting for more ships. They must not have timed their arrival perfectly.”

He nodded, “Where are you?”

He knew she left the stealth shuttle in orbit, but last he knew her ship was out by the asteroid belt.

She replied, “I just skipped to Earth orbit, you’ll be on board in ninety-seven seconds.”

His heart started to pound as the adrenaline flooded his body.

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